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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 1076 ORDINANCE NO. 1076 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA ADDING SECTION 19.34.031 AND CHAPTER 19.35 TO TITLE 19 OF THE AZUSA MUNICIPAL CODE, AMENDING SECTION 19.34.040 THEREOF, CREATING AN AUTOMOBILE WRECKING AND JUNK YARD OVERLAY ZONE, SPECIFYING THE AREA THEREOF, AND PERMITTING THE USE OF PROPERTY THEREIN FOR AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARDS AND JUNK YARDS SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT THEREFOR. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows : SECTION 1. Section 19.34.031 is added to the Azusa Municipal Code to read: "19.34.031. ADDITIONAL CONDITIONAL USES . The following uses are prohibited except in those area3included in the Automobile Wrecking and Junk Yard Overlay Zone, and unless a Conditional Use Permit is obtained after a public hearing in accordance with procedures stated in Chapter 19.60. " SECTION 2. Section 19.34.040 of the Azusa Municipal Code is amended by repealing subparagraphs numbered (1 ) and (12) thereof. SECTION 3. Chapter 19.35 is added to Title 19 of the Azusa Municipal Code to read : "CHAPTER 19.35 AUTOMOBILE WRECKING AND JUNK YARD OVERLAY ZONE (M-2) 19. 35.010. OVERLAY ZONE ESTABLISHED. Automobile Wrecking Yards and Junk Yards as those terms are defined in Sections 19.04.050 and 19.04.370 are permitted uses in that area zoned M-2 (General Manufacturing) Zone, included in the Automobile Wrecking and Junk Yard Overlay Zone, which is hereby established, subject to the following conditions : (a ) All of the requirements of the M-2 (General Manufacturing) Zone are met. (b ) A Conditional Use Permit is issued after public hearing in accordance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 19.60. (c ) All of the requirements of this Overlay Zone are met and continuosly complied with. 19.35.020. STANDARDS. (a ) MINIMUM DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FENCES AND WALLS All operations and storage, including all equipment used in conducting such business, shall be within an enclosed building, or within an area enclosed by a solid wall or solid fence except as herein other- wise provided. When two or more automobile wrecking or junk yards have a common bounary line, a solid wall or solid fence will not be required on such common boundary line if a solid wall or solid fence encloses the entire combined area devoted to such uses . When fences or walls are provided they shall be built as follows : 1. All fences and walls shall be of a uniform height in relation to the ground upon which they stand, and shall be a minimum of eight (8) feet and shall not exceed sixteen (16) feet in height. All fences or walls shall be set back five (5 ) feet from the property line along all frontages abutting a public street, highway, or facing a more restrictive zone. 2. All fences and walls open to view from any public street or highway or any area in a residential, agricultural, or commercial zone, shall be constructed of solid masonry. 3. Required fences may be constructed of other material comparable to the foregoing if approved by the Planning Commission at the time the Conditional Use Permit is approved. 4. All fences and walls shall be a uniform color, shall be constructed in a workmanlike manner, shall be maintained uniformly and shall con- sist solely of n :a materials unless the Planning Commissions approves the substitution of used materials where it determines such used materials will provide the equivalent in service, appearance and useful life . 5. All yard gates shall be solid and no less than eight (8) feet in height. Gates shall be kept closed when not in use and shall provide a pedestrian access opening unless other pedestrian access is provided. -2- GRADING AND PAVEMENT All aisles and drives within the yard shall be paved with an asphalt surfacing 3 inches thick to prevent emission of dust or tracking of mud onto public rights-or-way. All areas used for dismantling and/or storage shall be covered with rock base 3 inches thick. The Planning Director shall enforce these dust control standards and may: 1. Approve other paving materials which provide, in his opinion, the equivalent in service and useful life. 2. Modify such requirement within existing yards in those areas where material is stored and he finds no dust or mud problem would result. DRAINAGE All yards shall be graded to drain to the public street or as may be approved by the City Engineer. Any drainage discharged onto public rights-of-way shall be processed through a proper clarifier to remove all contaminants. OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING SPACES The following minimum required off-street parking spaces, and adequate access thereto, shall be maintained on the same lot or parcel of land as that upon which the yard is located : 1. Automobile wrecking yards - one off-street space for each seven thousand (7,000) square feet of yard area or fraction thereof for the first two (2 ) acres and two (2) off-street parking spaces for each acre thereafter. Junkyards - one off-street parking space for each acre or fraction thereof. 2. One off-street loading space for each acre or part of an acre of yard area, to be located within the walls or fences required by this chapter. 3. Regardless of the size of the yard area a minimum of five (5 ) parking spaces, plus one loading space, shall be provided. The parking spaces required herein shall not be used for the parking of vehicles used directly in the conducting of such use or of renovated, repaired, or reassembled vehicles which are owned, operated, or in the possession of the proprietor of the automobile wrecking yard or junk yard. All off-street parking shall be improved, including landscaping, in accordance with Chapter 19.48 of this Code . -3- LANDSCAPING 1. All parking areas shall be fully landscaped in conformance with Section 19.48.060 of this Code . 2. All area between the curb and walls (5 foot setback area included) or between the curb and parking areas shall be landscaped in a neat and attractive manner including parkway trees . 3. All area within the required five (5 ) foot setback facing a more restrictive zone shall be landscaped in a neat and attractive manner. 4. Tall growing trees shall be planted and maintained along side and rear fences or walls which abut an elevated freeway or residential area. 5. All landscaping required by this section shall contain an adequate irrigation system and shall be fully maintained at all times. 6. A complete plan for all landscaping required herein shall be submitted for review and approval by the Park and Planning Departments prior to start of construction. SIGNS All signs shall comply with Chapter 19.50 of this Code except that total sign area displayed shall not exceed 300 square feet. No realia shall be included in any sign. OFF-SITE IMPROVEMENTS 1. All frontages of yard areas along all dedicated public rights-ofway shall be fully improved with curb, gutter, sidewalk, and pavement deemed necessary by the City Engineer. (b ) MINIMUM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS SMOKE OR OTHER PARTICULATE MATTER 1. Any existing or proposed use producing smoke or other particulate matter shall not discharge such contaminants into the atmosphere from any single source of emission whatsoever, for any period or periods aggregating more than three (3) minutes in any one (1 ) hour, where any such contaminent is : a ) As dark or darker in shade than the density reading designated as No. 1 on the Ringel- mann Chart published by the U.S . Bureau of Mines, or b) Of such opacity as to obscure an observer ' s view to a degree equal to or greater than smoke described as the equivalent of the density reading designated as No. 1 on the Ringelmann Chart as published by the U.S . Bureau of Mines . -4- DUST, DIRT, ASH, CHARRED PAPER, SOOT, GRIME, CARBON, ETC. 1. Any existing or proposed use producing dust, dirt, ash, charred paper, soot, grime, carbon or other noxious material which can or may cause damage to the health of any individual, animal or vegetation, damage to property or the physical soiling or discoloration of the surfaces of any structures or materials located outside the property lines of the parcel of land from which such emission emanates, shall have the source of contaminant muffled or controlled in a manner that will prevent the issuance, continuance or recurrence of any emission that is, or may be, detectable beyond the property line of the premises . NON-CONTAMINATED EMISSIONS 1. Any existing or proposed use shall have all intakes and exhausts on all air-handling equipment designed, installed and operated in such a manner so as to prevent any perceptible acceleration of air movement across property lines . Cooling towers and condensers shall be designed, installed and operated in a manner which will prevent water spray from being carried across property lines. VIBRATION 1. Vibration in the form of earth-borne oscillations shall not cause displacement at any lot line exceeding the limits stated in the Table below . These limits shall not apply to operations involved in the construction or demolition of structures. Maximum Displacement at any lot line (in inches ) Frequency Steady State Impact (cycles per second) Vibration* Vibration** 10 and below .0008 .0016 10 - 20 .0005 .0010 20 - 30 .0003 .0006 30 - 40 .0002 .0004 40 - 50 .0001 .0002 50 - 60 .0001 .0002 60 and over .0001 .0002 *Continuous vibration: discrete pulses occuring at more than 30 per minute shall be considered steady-state vibration. **Discrete pulses occurring at or less than 30 per minute -5- ODOR 1. The emission of odors in such quantity as to be offensive, at any point along or beyond the property line of the source, shall not be permitted. In determining such quantities of offensive odors, Table III, "Odor Thresholds", in Chapter 5 of the "Air Pollution Abatement Manual", copyrighted in 1951 by the Manufacturing Chemists Association, inc . , Washington, D.C. shall be used as a guide. Any process which may involve the creation or emission of any odor shall be provided with a secondary safeguard system that will control the odor should the primary safeguard system fail. HEAT, LIGHT AND GLARE 1. No direct or sky-reflected glare, whether from floodlights or from high temperature processes such as combustion, welding or otherwise, shall be discernable at any point along or outside the external property lines. FIRE AND EXPLOSION HAZARD 1. All activities involving, and all storage of, flammable or explosive materials shall be provided with adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion, and adequate fire-fighting and fire suppression equipment and devices which meet the City of Azusa Fire Safety standards . SEWAGE AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE 1. All sewage and industrial waste systems shall comply with all requirements of the Los Angeles County Sanitation District and the City Engineer. All industrial wastes not approved for deposit in sewer lines shall be disposed of in a manner approved by the City Engineer. NOISE 1. Noise radiated in each Standard Octave Band (Table I) and/or at the Preferred Frequencies (Table II) by any use or facility (other than transportation facilities or temporary construction work), shall not exceed the values given in Table I and/or Table II, after applying the correction shown in Table III, when measured, (1) along any point on the property line of the property on which the use is located or, (2) at any point along a line located 100 feet from the outer peri- meter of the structure radiating said noise, whichever is applicable . Use of either Table I or Table II shall be at the discretion of the Planning Department, depending on availability of methods and equipment, but with either method, the sound pressure level shall be measured with a sound level meter and associated octave band analyzer, conforming to standards pres- cribed by the American Standards Association. -6- \ TABLE I (Octave Band Frequency Standard Method) Sound Pressure Level in Decibels Frequency Band in Re : 0.0002 dyne/cm2 Cycles per second 7?00 p.m. to 7 :00 a .m. to 7:00 a .m. 7:00 p.m. 20 - 75 69 74 75 - 150 54 59 150 - 300 47 52 300 - 600 41 46 600 - 1200 37 42 1200 - 2400 34 39 2400 - 4800 31 34 480o - 10,000 28 32 10,000 - 15,000 28 32 TABLE II (Preferred Frequency Standard Method) Frequency in Sound Pressure Level in Decibels Cycles per second Re : 0.0002 dyne/cm2 7 :00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 a .m. 7:00 p.m. 31.5 75 79 63 65 70 125 52 57 250 46 51 500 4o 45 1000 36 41 2000 33 37 4000 3o 311 80o0 27 32 TABLE III Type of Operation or Correction in Decibels Characteristic of Noise Noise of Impulsive Character (hammering, etc . ) -5 Noise of Periodic Character (hum, screech, etc . ) -5 -7- (c ) MISCELLANEOUS 1. No wrecked or dismantled vehicles, salvage or junk shall be placed or permitted to remain outside of the enclosed yard area . 2. No wrecked or dismantled vehicles, salvage or junk shall be stored at a height greater than that of the surrounding fence or wall. 3. Compliance with the standards for junk yards, as set forth in this Chapter, shall not relieve the proprietors of such yards from complying with all of the other applicable regulations, laws and ordinances of the City of Azusa, County of Los Angeles and State of California . 4. Hours of operation shall be from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. 5. Adequate underground storage shall be provided for all waste and drain oil. The draining or dumping of any such waste or drain oil in other than an approved storage stank is absolutely prohibited. 19.35 .030. PROPERTIES INCLUDED IN OVERLAY ZONE. The following described properties are hereby included in the Overlay Zone established by this Chapter : Parcel No. 1: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 45, 46, 47 & 48 of Block 1, of Tract No. 8507, Map Book 102, Pages 78 through 80 as recorded in the Office of the Los Angeles County Recorder. Parcel No. 2: The south 254 feet of the east 305 feet of the west 660 feet of Lot 48, Subdivision No. 2, Azusa Land & Water Company as recorded in Miscellaneous Records Book No. 43, Page 94 in the Los Angeles County Recorder ' s Office. Parcel No. 3: The east 314.06 feet of the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 3, T; 1 S, R 10 W, San Bernardino Base and Meridian and the west 208.58 feet of the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 3, T 1 S, R 10 WI San Bernardino Base and Meridian per map recorded in the U.S. Government District Land Office . " -8- SECTION 1 The Cit-,; Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by law . Passed and approved this 15th day of April , 1974. Mayor STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS . CITY OF AZUSA ) I, DEAN KLARR, City Clerk of the City of Azusa do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1076 was regularly intro- duced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 1st day of April , 1974. That, there- after, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 15th day of April , 1974, by the following vote, to wit : AYES : Councilmen: Rubio, Solem, Cruz, Arkison, Decker NOES : Councilmen: None ABSENT : Councilmen: None _2;1,1: -,6C11/N. City Clerk I do further certify that I caused said ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, on the 25 th day of April , 1974, and that the same was published in accordance with law. i Cy Cler Publish Azusa Herald, April 25, 1974 -9-